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911. Examining Opportunities for Growth and Investment in Rural America - Resources
Date: Jun 2021

Video recording of testimony from rural healthcare and economic organization leadership to the U.S. House Agriculture Committee. Discusses broadband and telehealth, COVID-19 impacts on rural healthcare and economics, education, infrastructure, aging, and agriculture business issues. Transcript available in the video description.

...telehealth, COVID-19 impacts on rural healthcare and economics, education, infrastructure, aging, and agriculture business...

912. State Medicaid Managed Care and Access to Rural Behavioral Health Services - Resources
Date: May 2022

Details how states with Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) are using MCO contract language to increase access to behavioral healthcare through service access requirements, provider network requirements, and telehealth utilization policies. Includes links to available MCO contracts and requests for applications.

...telehealth utilization policies. Includes links to available MCO contracts and requests for applications. --- State Medicaid...

913. Telehomecare Monitoring Services: Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems VNA Home Health Hospice - Resources
Date: Apr 2018

Discusses the development, impact, lessons learned, and future goals of a telehealth home health and hospice monitoring program for a healthcare system in rural Maine.

...telehealth home health and hospice monitoring program for a healthcare system in rural Maine. --- Telehomecare...

914. Rural Report: Challenges Facing Rural Communities and the Roadmap to Ensure Local Access to High-Quality, Affordable Care - Resources
Date: Feb 2019

Reports on continuing, current, and emerging challenges for rural hospitals working to provide access to healthcare services in rural communities. Includes discussion on policy recommendations to improve access and covers new models of care, reimbursement policies, regulatory requirements, telehealth, workforce issues, and prescription drug costs.

...telehealth, workforce issues, and prescription drug costs. --- Rural Report: Challenges Facing Rural Communities and the Roadmap...

915. 5 Strategies Rural Hospitals Are Using to Bolster Their Workforce - Resources
Date: Mar 2019

Provides examples from rural hospitals and health systems of how they are addressing workforce development and planning. Highlights Rural Training Tracks (RTT), grow-your-own programs, telehealth, behavioral health integration, and care teams including nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

...telehealth, behavioral health integration, and care teams including nurse practitioners and physician assistants. --- 5 Strategies...

916. How Rural Hospitals Improve Value and Affordability - Resources
Date: Feb 2019

Issue brief discussing four strategies rural hospitals are undertaking to improve the quality of care and patient experience, while decreasing the cost of healthcare services. Covers strategies on population health, new models of care, telehealth, and workforce programs. Includes multiple case studies and rural program examples for each strategy.

...telehealth, and workforce programs. Includes multiple case studies and rural program examples for each strategy...

917. The Imperative for Strategic Workforce Planning And Development: Challenges and Opportunities - Resources
Date: 2017

Discusses workforce planning and development efforts in rural hospitals, as well as other key topics that present challenges and opportunities in workforce recruitment and retention, such as diversity, the shortage of behavioral health professionals, technology, and more. Covers three rural specific examples that expand access to healthcare services through telehealth services and a rural residency matching incentive programs.

...telehealth services and a rural residency matching incentive programs. --- The Imperative for Strategic Workforce Planning...

918. Hospitals and Health Systems Ensuring Access in Their Communities: A Compendium of Case Examples - Resources
Date: Feb 2018

Identifies 9 primary strategies used by hospitals to increase access to healthcare services in rural and urban areas and offers examples of each. Covers virtual care options such as telehealth, emergency and urgent care models such as freestanding emergency departments (EDs), rural hospital networks, partnerships with Indian Health Service providers, and strategies to address social determinants of health.

...telehealth, emergency and urgent care models such as freestanding emergency departments (EDs), rural hospital networks...

919. CARES Act: Provisions to Help Rural Hospitals - Resources
Date: Apr 2020

Provides an overview of aspects of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act designed to support rural hospitals. Highlights provisions related to access to capital, Medicare payments, and telehealth, among others.

...telehealth, among others. --- CARES Act: Provisions to Help Rural Hospitals Provides an overview of aspects...

920. Hepatitis C Within a Single Health System: Progression Along the Cascade to Cure Is Higher for Those With Substance Misuse When Linked to a Clinic With Embedded Support Services - Resources
Date: Sep 2018

Recognizes the barriers to treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) by identifying patient and HCV clinic characteristics associated with the achievement of sustained virologic response (SVR) in a large medical center serving a rural population. Characteristics documented included proximity to the health center, household income and assets, availability of private insurance, medical comorbidities, and patients with recorded substance misuse. Suggests models for expanding access to treatment in rural areas through increased prescribing by primary care providers and through telehealth.

...telehealth. --- Hepatitis C Within a Single Health System: Progression Along the Cascade to Cure Is Higher...